Apple’s App Store successfully intercepted and blocked potentially fraudulent transactions worth over $2 billion in 2022.
The company revealed the numbers in a blog post published Tuesday, and said it also rejected about 1.7 million app submissions last year. Apple said these rejections were primarily due to the apps failing to meet Apple’s high standards for privacy, security and content.
Apple also announced that it will suspend 428,000 developer accounts and 282 million customer accounts linked to fraud and fraud in 2022.
Overall, the Cupertino-based company said its App Review team reviewed more than 6.1 million app submissions, enabling more than 185,000 developers to publish their first apps to the App Store.
“Over the years, Apple has introduced various measures to support the ecosystem that benefit both users and developers,” the blog post reads.
“As a result, the App Store has become a vibrant, innovative platform that averages more than 650 million visitors each week around the world.”
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It also reportedly made more than 20,000 calls to developers to help them address issues that led to their app being rejected.
Apple also prevented the creation of 198 million fraudulent accounts and detected and blocked over 147 million fraudulent ratings and reviews.
“Apple’s work to keep the App Store safe and trustworthy for users and developers is far from over,” the post said.
“As bad actors evolve their fraud tactics and deception techniques, Apple is complementing our anti-fraud efforts with feedback collected from myriad channels. […] We will continue to develop new approaches and tools to prevent abuse from harming App Store users and developers. ”
The figures come weeks after Apple fixed two zero-day vulnerabilities used to attack iPhone, iPad and Mac devices.
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